PLATE 357. 
Crropecia Woop, Schltr (Eng. Bot. Jahr., p. 34). 
Natural Order, ASCLEPIADEAE. 
A very slender, many-stemmed plant having leaves which are marbled with 
dull white, and flowers which are dull pink with deep purplish tips. Glabrous in 
all parts except the corolla. Stems very slender, decumbent, branching, filiform, 
distantly leafy, reaching 2 to 3 feet in length. Leaves on slender petioles 4 to $ 
inch long, ovate-cordate or reniform-cordate, fleshy $ to 1 inch long and wide, 
quite entire, dark green marbled with dull white above, slate colour or dull vinous 
beneath. Inflorescence axillary, peduncles } to } inch long, usuinlly bearing two 
flowers, but sometimes one only. Calyx vamosepalous, deeply 5-lohed, 14 line 
long; lobes linear-lanceolate, acute, tube very short, having internally at base 5 
delicate, oblong, acute squamae, alternate with the lobes. Corolla urceolate, 9-10 
lines long, tube inflated and subglobose at base, 3 lines diameter; then sud- 
denly contracted to 1 line wide, and 24 at apex; lobes 5, erect, and ovate- 
lanceolate, obtuse, margins strongly reflexed, ciliate with long hairs; con- 
niving at apex; deep dull purple. Corona double, outer scales connate in a 5- 
lobed cup, interior ones much larger, erect, linear-lanceolate, acute, narrowed at 
base, reflexed at apex. Pollinia obliquely oval, obtuse, compressed, caudicles 
short. Follicles slender, terete, 3 inches long, 1 to 14 line diameter. 
Habitat: Grornperc, 2000 feet alt. February 1851, Wood 1317. Noodsberg 
2-3000 feet alt., March, Wood. 
Drawn from a plant growing in a hanging basket at Botanic Gardens, 
Durban. 
A very graceful plant for hanging baskets, the mottled leaves and prettily 
coloured flowers make it very attractive when well grown. It may he propagated 
by division of the roots, by seeds or by bulhils which are produced on the stems 
near the base ; they are subglobose and sometime attain 1 inch in diameter. When 
first found by the writer the plant was hanging from perpendicular rocks, the 
stems reaching to fully the length given in the description. It was afterwards 
found at Noodsberg in shade on surface. of the ground, but then the stems did not 
reach to nearly the length given in the above description, though the plant was a 
large one with many stems. Several other species of Ceropegia, some not yet 
described, are found in the Colony, but for cultivation this one is probably the 
most elegant. ° 
Fig. 1, a flower; 2, calyx ; 3, upper portion of corolla; 4, corona; 5 
pollinia ; 6, two calyx lobes showing squamae ; all enlarged. 
